All 18 Uses
recollect
in
Northanger Abbey
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- Yes, she did; but I cannot recollect now.†
Chpt 9recollect = remember
- Upon recollection, however, I have a notion they are both dead; at least the mother is; yes, I am sure Mrs. Tilney is dead, because Mrs. Hughes told me there was a very beautiful set of pearls that Mr. Drummond gave his daughter on her wedding-day and that Miss Tilney has got now, for they were put by for her when her mother died.†
Chpt 9recollection = memory
- Dejected and humbled, she had even some thoughts of not going with the others to the theatre that night; but it must be confessed that they were not of long continuance, for she soon recollected, in the first place, that she was without any excuse for staying at home; and, in the second, that it was a play she wanted very much to see.†
Chpt 12recollected = remembered
- Told her you had sent me to say that, having just recollected a prior engagement of going to Clifton with us tomorrow, you could not have the pleasure of walking with her till Tuesday.†
Chpt 13
- The Tilneys called for her at the appointed time; and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able to fulfil her engagement, though it was made with the hero himself.†
Chpt 14recollection = memory
- Isabella recollected herself.†
Chpt 16recollected = remembered
- for the life of me, I cannot recollect it.
Chpt 18 *recollect = remember
- I do remember now being with you, and seeing him as well as the rest—but that we were ever alone for five minutes—However, it is not worth arguing about, for whatever might pass on his side, you must be convinced, by my having no recollection of it, that I never thought, nor expected, nor wished for anything of the kind from him.†
Chpt 18recollection = memory
- Catherine, recollecting herself, grew ashamed of her eagerness, and began earnestly to assure him that her attention had been fixed without the smallest apprehension of really meeting with what he related.†
Chpt 20recollecting = remembering
- Yes, these were characteristic sounds; they brought to her recollection a countless variety of dreadful situations and horrid scenes, which such buildings had witnessed, and such storms ushered in; and most heartily did she rejoice in the happier circumstances attending her entrance within walls so solemn!†
Chpt 21recollection = memory
- Instantaneously, with the consciousness of existence, returned her recollection of the manuscript; and springing from the bed in the very moment of the maid's going away, she eagerly collected every scattered sheet which had burst from the roll on its falling to the ground, and flew back to enjoy the luxury of their perusal on her pillow.†
Chpt 22
- Catherine recollected herself, blushed deeply, and could say no more.†
Chpt 24recollected = remembered
- Stay—There is one part—" recollecting with a blush the last line.†
Chpt 25recollecting = remembering
- The very painful reflections to which this thought led could only be dispersed by a dependence on the effect of that particular partiality, which, as she was given to understand by his words as well as his actions, she had from the first been so fortunate as to excite in the general; and by a recollection of some most generous and disinterested sentiments on the subject of money, which she had more than once heard him utter, and which tempted her to think his disposition in such matters misunderstood by his children.†
Chpt 26recollection = memory
- My father has recollected an engagement that takes our whole family away on Monday.†
Chpt 28recollected = remembered
- I am only sorry it was not recollected sooner, that I might have written home.†
Chpt 28
- "I can allow for his wishing Catherine away, when he recollected this engagement," said Sarah, "but why not do it civilly?"†
Chpt 29
- "Yes, but that did not last long," said Catherine, her eyes brightening at the recollection of what had first given spirit to her existence there.†
Chpt 29recollection = memory
Definitions:
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(1)
(recollect) to remember -- especially experiences from long agoSynonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Relative to its synonyms, recollect brings to mind a leisurely piecing together of distant memories. It may be used in a less formal manner than remember and is almost always less formal than recall. -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) (historical usage) a thought or to collect thoughts -- often after an interruption -- often gaining composure, awareness, or a perspective